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Name: Kingdom of Thailand (formerly Siam).
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand (CIA, 2020). Bordering countries include Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Malaysia.
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Size: Thailand is described as being "about three times the size of Florida; slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming" (CIA, 2020). Thailand is the 51st largest country on earth in terms of total area, but 21st in terms of population.
Capitol: Bangkok. Bangkok has a population of more than 9 million, or close to 13% of the country's population. More than 14 million, or 22.2% of the total population, live in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (World Population Review, 2020).
Population: 64.1 million. 97.5% are Thai, 1.3% are Burmese, and 1.2% are "other" (CIA, 2020) .
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Population Density: Thailand is the 51st largest country on earth in terms of total area, but 21st in terms of population. Thailand is 88th in terms of population density, with 132.1 people per square kilometer (342/square mile), based on the 2011 population figures (World Population Review, 2020).
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Climate: Thailand’s climate ranges from the sub-tropical to the tropical zones. It has three distinct seasons: a hot and dry season from February to May, a monsoon season from June to October, and a cool/dry season from November to January (Royal Thai Embassy, 2020).
Language: The national language is called Central Thai, but Thailand is home to 73 living languages, 51 of which are indigenous (Koyfman, 2020).
Currency: Thailand’s currency unit is the Baht, which is divided into 100 satangs. The exchange rates against the US dollars averaged out at 31.0 baht to US$ 1 in 2012 (Royal Thai Embassy, 2020).
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Economy: Thailand has a relatively well-developed infrastructure and a free-enterprise economy. Poverty has been substantially reduced. Thailand’s economic fundamentals are sound, with low inflation, low unemployment, and reasonable public and external debt levels. Tourism and government spending (mostly on infrastructure) have helped to boost the economy. Over the longer-term, household debt levels, political uncertainty, and an aging population pose risks to growth (CIA, 2020).
Form of Government: A constitutional monarchy: "a form of government in which a non-elected monarch functions as the head of state within the limits of a constitution. Political power in a constitutional monarchy is shared between the monarch and an organized government" (Longley, 2019).
Thailand, Bangkok. Democracy Monument commissioned in 1939 to commemorate the Siamese Revolution of 1932 which led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.
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Religion: Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.3%, Christian 1%.
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References:
CIA. (2020). East Asia/Southeast Asia: Thailand. Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/th.html
CIA. 2020. United States vs. Thailand. Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Koyfman. (2020). What language is spoken in Thailand? Retrieved from https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/what-language-is-spoken-in-thailand
Longley. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/constitutional-monarchy-definition-examples-4582648
World Population Review. (2020). Thailand-population. Retrieved from https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/thailand-population
Worldometer. (2020). Thailand demographics. Retrieved from https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/thailand-demographics/